guilty

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The verdict

“guilty” is uncommon German (frequency #55,382 among 54,401 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,382
frequency rank, German
54,401
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - an einer (gesetzlichen) Übertretung, Verfehlung oder Ähnlichem die Schuld tragend

Key facts for guilty
PropertyValue
Headwordguilty
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#55,382
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “guilty” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). guilty lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

guilty is uncommon German at frequency #55,382 among 54,401 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

guilty doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is guilty, spelled G-U-I-L-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    an einer (gesetzlichen) Übertretung, Verfehlung oder Ähnlichem die Schuld tragend
  2. 2
    sich schuldig fühlen

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guilty"?
"guilty" is spelled G-U-I-L-T-Y. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "guilty" mean?
As an adjective, "guilty" means: an einer (gesetzlichen) Übertretung, Verfehlung oder Ähnlichem die Schuld tragend
How do you pronounce "guilty"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guilty" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guilty" come from?
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Using “guilty”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is G-U-I-L-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Other uncommon German words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list